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| company_name = Jagex Software, Ltd

{{Infobox CompanyMMA event

| company_logo = [[Image:Jagexgif.gif]]

| name = PRIDE 2

| company_type = [[Private company|Private]]

| image = PRIDE FC II.jpg

| foundation = [[1999]]

| promotion = [[PRIDE Fighting Championships]]

| ___location = [[Cambridge]], [[United Kingdom]]

| date = [[March 15]], [[1998]]

| key_people = Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, and Constant Tedder, Founders

| venue = [[Yokohama Arena]]

| industry = [[Computer and video game industry|Interactive entertainment]], [[Massively multiplayer online game|MMORPG]]

| city = [[Yokohama]]

| products = [[RuneScape Classic]] <br /> [[RuneScape 2]] (Current version as of 2006)

| attendance =

| num_employees = 302 ([[October]], [[2006]]) <ref>[http://www.jagex.com/corporate/credits.ws Jagex Credits] Credits last accessed October 17, 2006.</ref>|

| buyrate =

| homepage = [http://www.jagex.com/ www.jagex.com]

| previousevent = [[PRIDE 1]]

| footnotes = '''Free games offered by Jagex:''' <br /> Meltdown, Flea Circus, Monkey Puzzle, Vertigo, Gold Mine, Fuel Critical (Stages 1, 2 & 3), and RuneScape

| followingevent = [[PRIDE 3]]

}}

'''Jagex [[limited company|Ltd.]]''' (or '''Jagex Software''') is a [[United Kingdom]]-based producer of [[Java (programming language)|Java]]-based online [[computer game]]s. According to developer Paul Gower, Jagex stands for '''Ja'''va '''G'''aming '''Ex'''perts. The company is best-known for its [[MMORPG]], ''[[RuneScape]].''

==History==

'''Jagex Software''' was founded in November [[1999]] by Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, and Constant Tedder.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://kbase.runescape.com/viewarticle.ws?article_id=2449|title= What is Jagex?|accessdate= |accessmonthday= 09-10|accessyear= 2006|author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= 2006|month= |format= |work= |publisher= Jagex|pages= |language= English|archiveurl= |archivedate=}}</ref> The aim of this company was to create and license Java games for websites. In December [[2001]], the company focused on their primary game, the [[MMORPG]] ''[[RuneScape]]''. The company then became '''Jagex Ltd.''' At the time of the company's formation, ''RuneScape'' had already been created and more than one million accounts had been registered. The first tasks of the company were to create a version of the game with extra features that required a £3.20 ($5.00 [[USD]]) monthly fee, while still offering the free version, and to develop partnerships with advertisers. Both tasks were achieved, and the pay-to-play version of ''RuneScape'' was released on [[February 27]], [[2002]], gaining 5,000 subscriptions in the first week. Currently, ''RuneScape'' has over 9,000,000 free players and approximately 850,000 pay-to-play subscribers as of [[July 17]], [[2006]].<ref>[http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/adwatch/?id=13256&page=1 "WildTangent Explores RuneScape"] - GameDaily BIZ, [[17 July]] [[2006]]. Retrieved [[30 July]] [[2006]].</ref> In [[2006]], founders Andrew Gower and Paul Gower were calculated to be worth [[pound sterling|£32 million]] ($60 million [[United States dollar|USD]]). Andrew Gower is also known for his varieties of java games.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/richlist/person/0,,39448,00.html www.timesonline.co.uk] - Rich List 2006, accessed 22 May 2006</ref>

==Operation==

Jagex has grown since the founding of the company in 1999. Jagex now has two offices, one in [[Cambridge]] and one in [[London]]. The company has been recruiting heavily in 2006 and now has 302 staff members as of [[August 13]], [[2006]], grouped into the Development, Publishing, Web Content, Minigame and Customer Relations teams. Jagex continues to add more "worlds" (or servers) to expand the area in which players can play, focusing on adding servers in Asia.

They have many servers in various locations all over the [[United States]], [[Canada]], [[Australia]], [[Netherlands]], [[Sweden]], [[Finland]], and the [[United Kingdom]]. On June 2 2006, Jagex added new servers into Vancouver, which gave them a total of 138 paying and free servers worldwide. On 20th November 2006, Jagex relocated six of its servers to Finland to increase the spread of European play.

==Beyond ''RuneScape''==

While most of the work by Jagex staff now deals with ''RuneScape'', they still maintain a few other games that one can play online at their website. These games are:

*''Meltdown''

*''Vertigo''

*''Flea Circus''

*''Gold Mine''

*''Monkey Puzzle''

*''Fuel Critical'' Stage 1-3

These games can be accessed at [http://www.jagex.com Jagex.com]

'''PRIDE 2''' was a [[mixed martial arts]] event held by [[PRIDE|KRS-PRIDE]] (later renamed PRIDE Fighting Championships). It took place at [[Yokohama Arena]] in [[Yokohama]], [[Japan]] on March 15, 1998. Kazushi Sakuraba, Mark Kerr, Vernon White, and Marco Ruas all made their PRIDE debuts at this event.

For a time it was stated on the Jagex Corporate site that a new MMORPG unrelated to RuneScape was in planning as far back as mid-2005, as well as a goal to gain over 1,000,000 paying members. This has since been taken down at the start of 2006, with a new goal of reaching over 900,000 subscribers and to take RuneScape into other non-English languages.

== Results ==

It has been confirmed by the [http://www.jagex.com/corporate/jobs.ws Jagex Jobs page] that Jagex are working on a new undisclosed game. Although no official information has been released about this as of yet it is said to be another [[computer role-playing game|RPG]] due to the roles described in the job.

==={{flagicon| BRA}} [[Royler Gracie]] vs. {{flagicon| JPN}} [[Naoki Sano|Yuhi Sano]]===

Gracie defeated Sano by armbar at 33:14 of round 1.

==={{flagicon| BRA}} [[Juan Mott]] vs. {{flagicon| JPN}} [[Akira Shoji]]===

<blockquote>"Your role will primarily be to build creatures, shape virtual worlds, design quests and storylines for our new, undisclosed game."</blockquote>

Shoji defeated Mott by submission (Rear Naked Choke) at 3:47 of round 1.

==={{flagicon| JPN}} [[William Roosmalen]] vs. {{flagicon| USA}} [[Ralph White]]===

Whether or not it is to be another online game like ''[[RuneScape]]'' is yet to be known. But it is known that this new game won't affect the operation or maintenance of ''[[RuneScape]]'' in any way, as quite a few people feared it would.

William Roosmalen defeated Ralph White by KO (knee to the body).

==={{flagicon| JPN}} [[Kazushi Sakuraba]] vs. {{flagicon| USA}} [[Vernon White]]===

==List of Other Jagex games==

Sakuraba defeated White by submission (armbar) at 6:53 of round 3.

The games listed below were removed during mid-2004 and are no longer available, though they may be back. In the meantime, Jagex has focused resources on RuneScape.

==={{flagicon| BRA}} [[Renzo Gracie]] vs. {{flagicon| JPN}} [[Sanae Kikuta]]===

The past games Jagex used to offer were:

Gracie defeated Kikuta by submission (guillotine choke) at :43 round 6.

==={{flagicon| TRI}} [[Gary Goodridge]] vs. {{flagicon| BRA}} [[Marco Ruas]]===

* [[Tetralink]]

Ruas defeated Goodridge by submission (Heel Hook) at 9:09 of round 1.

* [[Cyber Wars]]

* [[Battleship (game)|Warship]]

* [[Checkers]]

* [[Chess]]

* [[Reversi]]

* Go-mad

* [[SlimeWar]]

* Crypt

* The Bottomless Pit, although this was not actually a game, but meant as a humorous animation. The animations showed you falling down a bottomless pit for a long period of time. It also told you some cheats after about 10 minutes because you were so patient. None of the cheats worked for RuneScape.

==={{flagicon| CRO}} [[Branko Cikatic]] vs. {{flagicon| USA}} [[Mark Kerr]]===

Many of these games such as Reversi and Checkers can now be played against other players inside [[RuneScape]] in the Burthorpe Games Room. Burthorpe is in a members-only locale, so the £3.20 ($5.00 USD) per month game membership is required.

Cikatic was disqualified for grabbing the ropes at 2:14 of the first round.

==ReferencesSee also==

* [[List of PRIDE events]]

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== External links==

* [http://www.jagexpridefc.com/corporate/index.ws JagexOfficial corporatePRIDE homepageWebsite]

* [http://www.sherdog.com/fightfinder/fightfinder.asp?search=yes&eventid=47 Sherdog.com]

*[http://kbase.runescape.com/lang/en/aff/runescape/viewarticle.ws?article_id=2513 Members of the Jagex Team]

*[http://www.runescape.com RuneScape homepage]

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